9 Dec 1861, Monday

Union - government
The U. S. Senate, after discussing the various setbacks suffered by their military, votes 33 to 3 to set up to set up what will become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. The committee was pressed for mainly by senators who wished an investigation into the "fiasco" at Ball's Bluff.

Confederacy - civilian
Georgia
Cotton planters on the coast of this state burn their cotton so it won't fall into the hands of Federal forces.

South Carolina
Cotton planters on the coast of this state burn their cotton so it won't fall into the hands of Federal forces. The Charleston Courier newspaper reports this, saying the Union forces were deprived of "the extensive spoils with which they have feasted their imagination, and the obtainment of which was one of their chief objects."

Confederacy-military
Missouri
Skirmishing occurs at Union Mills, Missouri.

Indian Territory
Skirmishing occurs at Chusto -Talasah (Bird Creek or High Shoal) not far from Tulsey Town (now Tulsa.) Confederate forces mainly Native Americans, defeated pro-Union Creek Indians, led by Opothleyahola, who were attempting to withdraw into Kansas.

Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971